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Need feeding advice.
Hi everyone. =) This is our 2nd year with ducks now. Each time we bought additional ducklings to add, we kept them indoors and went through the food stages, etc. Now we have a broody girl and we have decided to let her try out motherhood. My question is, how will we handle feeding them with them... -
Duck egg safety?
Hi everyone. Ok, so thanksgiving is coming up and i have been put in charge of deviled eggs. Knowing that we now have ducks, my family wants them to be made with duck eggs. Now, we have been bringing in our eggs each day and storing them in a basket on the counter unwashed. It just occured to me... -
Duck egg allergy/intolerance???
Sorry it took me so long to get back. Yes, the eggs were washed prior using them. We use the egg cleaning products that can be purchased at Tractor Supply Company. Their feed is the same. Sometimes we will give them mealworms, peas, kale or cabbage for a treat. It's hard to tell which eggs may... -
Are dogwood tree berries toxic to ducks?
Hi there everyone. We built our duck run near a bunch of trees in our yard. It turned out that one of them is a beautiful dogwood tree. Now that fall has arrived, it's developing a lot of bright red berries. I keep trying to find out if they are toxic to ducks, but I can't seem to find any info... -
Duck egg allergy/intolerance???
We've eaten them on and off since Februrary. The first dozen we bought from a local farmer to help us decide if we wanted to raise ducks or chickens. Everything went fine with those. Our ducks started laying about a month or so ago. We've eaten several of them and gave some away. So far we... -
Duck egg allergy/intolerance???
Hi everyone. I have had ducks since March of this year. I personally am not a huge egg eater, but I've eaten about a dozen duck eggs myself so far this year. I never had any problems until the last 2 times I ate them. Both times, I got sick within an hour of eating them. I had a burning... -
HELP! Drake injured from fighting. =(
The huge monster scab has finally fallen off of his face and it looks like all of his feathers are starting to come back in. The feather loss finally stopped and the fuzz coming back in on his head and face is white, so I guess that means that tissue damage caused the feather loss. His behavior... -
Female Rouen Duck?
Don't feel bad. I have a drake for my 4 girls, and they still like to mount each other. It is so weird, but totally normal -
What kind of duck is this?!
I agree with ravynscoft. If there is hissing instead of honking/croaking, there has to be moscovy in there. The coloring looks like a mallard or rouen. -
HELP! Drake injured from fighting. =(
In case anyone was still wondering, my boy is doing great. He lost a lot of feathers on his head, but it looks like it finally stopped. It also looks like some new ones are starting to surface. The monster scab on his face is loosening up now and looks like it'll be falling off soon. There is a... -
Can ducks eat their own eggshells?
Yes they are laying. It's been about a month now. We were getting squishy eggs, so we started giving them oyster shell. We also added the eggshells from our chicken eggs. I actually saw them eating the eggshell, but never the oyster shell. Since I stopped adding the eggshells to the oyster shell... -
Can ducks eat their own eggshells?
Hi there everyone. I have been surfing the net, but can't seem to find the answer to this question. My ducks don't seem to care for oyster shell, but they do enjoy crushed up eggshells. So far, I have used chicken eggs, saved the shells in a bowl, microwaved them for about 30 seconds to kill... -
HELP! Drake injured from fighting. =(
Aside from the very first cleaning, all I've used was twice daily treatments of Vetericyn bovine eye wash and Neosporin w/out pain relief. I also started adding a poultry vitamin supplement to their drinking water. I stopped the Neosporin a few days ago since everything was scabbed over nicely... -
HELP! Drake injured from fighting. =(
Ok weird thing... He's been doing great, and all but one of his scabs have fallen off. He is back to acting like his old happy chipper self again. Yay! Now for the weird part. The last couple of mornings he has come out of the duck house with more and more feathers missing from around his eyes... -
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HELP! Drake injured from fighting. =(
The before and after pictures are amazing! Thank you so much everyone for your guidance and support! =) -
HELP! Drake injured from fighting. =(
Thanks you so much for checking! I was going to post these updated pictures tonight. I'm so happy! He is healing so well. I discontinued Neosporin use 2 days ago. I've still been using the eye wash twice daily. I'm not really sure if I need to though at this point. Everything appears to be... -
HELP! Drake injured from fighting. =(
The pics I just posted are from this morning. It was hard to get a good picture because he kept struggling to get down. I consider that a good sign. He has definitely got his spunk back. The first few days he was too exhausted to even try to put up a fight. Initially his skin was different... -
HELP! Drake injured from fighting. =(
He still looks pretty rough, especially since his skin is scabbing over, but there is no more oozing from anywhere. The Neosporin in his feathers also makes it look pretty bad. He definitely appears to be blind in that eye, but can still see out of the other. He is adjusting to only having one... -
HELP! Drake injured from fighting. =(
My drake seems to be showing more and more improvement. I'm very happy. I am continuing with the Neosporin and eye wash. I do have one major concern though. He started to successfully preen himself again now that he is feeling better. A few days ago, he was in too much pain to preen. I'm vey...